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HAT MAKES A FRIEND? 



HAT MAKES A 
FRIEND? 

DEFINITIONS AND 
OPINIONS FROM 
VARIOUS SOURCES COL- 
LECTED AND /compiled 
BY VOLNEY '^STREAMER 




DUT, ah, no words can quite disclose 
What makes a friend ! 






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LAMSON, WOLFFE, AND COMPANY 

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YVHAT 
MAKES 
A 
FRIEND? 



Uniform with ihis Voluvtt 

!n Friendship's Name 



TO MY FRIEND 




H, friend, let us be true 

To one another ! For the world, which seems 
To lie before us like a land of dreams, 
So various, so beautiful, so new, 
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light. 
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain ; 
And we are here as on a darkling plain 
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, 
Where ignorant armies clash by night. 

— Matthew Arnold, 




SLENDER acquaintance with 
the world must convince every 
man that actions, not words, are the 
true criterion of the attachment of 
friends ; and that the most Hberal 
professions of good-will are very far 
from being the surest marks of it. 

— George Washington. 



IVTo distance of place or lapse of 

time can lessen the friendship of 

those who are thoroughly persuaded 

of each other's worth. 

— Robert S out hey. 



A LITTLE peaceful home 

Bounds all my wants and wishes ; add to this 
My book and friend, and this is happiness. 

— Francesco di Rioja, 




F all felicities, the most charm- 
ing is that of a firm and gentle 
friendship. It sweetens all our cares, 
dispels our sorrows, and counsels us 
in all extremities. Nay, if there were 
no other comfort in it than the bare 
exercise of so generous a virtue, even 
for that single reason a man would 
not be without it; it is a sovereign 
antidote against all calamities — even 
against the fear of death itself. 

— Seneca. 



T is chance that makes brothers, 
but hearts that make friends. 

— Unknown. 




jRE we ever truly read, save by 

the one that loves us best ? 

Love Is blind, the phrase runs. Nay, 

I would rather say, love sees as God 

sees, and with Infinite wisdom has 

infinite pardon. 

— Otuda. 



'T^HESE things do not require to be 
spoken; there is something in the 
hand grip, and the look in the eye 
that makes you know your man. 

— C. H addon Chambers, 



i( T WOULD go up to the gates of hell with a friend, 

Through thick and thin." 
The other said, as he bit off a concha's end, 
** I would go In." 

— John Ernest McCann, 



O word Is oftener on the lips of 
^Mi nien than '' friendship," and in- 
deed no thought is more familiar to 
their aspirations. All men are dream- 
ing of it, and its drama, which is al- 
ways a tragedy, is enacted daily. It is 

the secret of the universe. 

— Thoreau, 

TT is a sad thing that there comes a 

moment when misery unknots 

friendships. There were two friends; 

there are two passers-by ! 

— Victor Hugo, 

\1l 7H0 in want a hollow friend doth try, 
Directly seasons him his enemy. 

— Shakspere, 

rjRiENDSHiP — to be two in one — 
Let the canting liar pack ! 

Well I know, when I am gone. 

How she mouths behind my back. 

— Tennyson, 




OFTEN find myself going 
back to Darwin's saying about 
the duration of a man's friendships 
being one of the best measures of 
his worth. 

— Anne Thackeray Ritchie, 



T^HAT two men may be real friends, 

they must have opposite opinions, 

similar principles, and different loves 

and hatreds. 

— Chateaubriand, 



TT is a good thing to be rich, and a 
good thing to be strong, but it is a 
better thing to be beloved of many 
friends. 

— Euripides, 




I ME keeps no measure when true friends are parted, 

No record day by day; 

The sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, 

Friendship's firm laws obey. 

— Meredith Nicholson. 



pvEvoTiON to a friend does not con- 
sist in doing everything for him, 
but simply that which is agreeable, and 
of service to him, and let it only be 
revealed by accident. 

— Unknown. 



A TRUE test of friendship, to sit or 
walk with a friend for an hour in 
perfect silence without wearying of 
one another's company. 

— Mrs. Mulock Craik, 




HINK of those twenty years of 
Napoleon, from 1790 to 18 10. 
How he beat and buffeted the world 
about like a tennis ball; how he 
hated without loving and destroyed 
without constructing; how he smote 
with breathless terror every nation of 
the earth, and yet could not fasten 
to him with hooks enduring a single 
friend who would outlive calamity. 

— Unknown. 

TJE who serves and seeks for gain, 
And follows but for form, 

Will pack when it begins to rain, 
And leave thee in the storm. 

— Shakspere. 

T HAVE never believed much in friend- 
ship ; it is a tie which binds the 
weak. Strong characters break it 
early. 

— Willis SteelL 



O W were Friendship possible ? 
In mutual devotedness to the 
Good and True ; otherwise impos- 
sible ; except as Armed Neutrality, 
or hollow Commercial League. A 
man, be the Heavens ever praised, is 
sufficient for himself ; yet were ten 
men, united in Love, capable of being 
and doing what ten thousand singly 
would fail in. Infinite is the help 
man can yield to man 

— Thomas Carlyle. 

'T^'HE first foundation of friendship 
is not the power of conferring 
benefits, but the equality with which 
they are received, and may be re- 
turned. 

— Junius* 

TT is more disgraceful to distrust 

than to be deceived by our 

friends. 

— Rochefoucauld. 



g^glRST of all things for friendship 
|M3 there must be that delightful, 
indefinable state called feeling at ease 
with your companion, — the one man, 
the one woman out of a multitude 
who interests you, who meets your 

thoughts and tastes. 

— Julia Duhring. 



pRiENDSHiP based solely upon grati- 
tude is like a photograph ; with 

time it fades. 

— Carmen Sylva. 



A ND what is friendship but a name, 
A charm that lulls to sleep ; 

A shade that follows wealth or fame. 
But leaves the wretch to weep ? 

— Goldsmith, 




|WO people who are friends 
make themselves responsible 
for each other. If I had a friend, 
and he went to the bad, and I met 
him in rags and poverty and disgrace, 
and if it ruined me to own him and 
help him, I should have to do it. If 
two men are really friends, nothing 
can come between them. 

— David Christie Murray. 



FRIENDSHIP above all ties does bind the heart. 
And faith in friendship is the noblest part. 



— Lord Orrery, 



TF you would know how rare a thing 
a true friend is, let me tell you 
that to be a true friend a man must 
be perfectly honest. 

— Henry W, Shaw, 




FRIEND Is a rare book, of 

which but one copy is made. 

We read a page of it every day, till 

some woman snatches it from our 

hands, who sometimes peruses it, but 

more frequently tears it. 

— Unknown, 



IVfo love in any relation of life can be 
at its best if the element of friend- 
ship be lacking, and no love can 
transcend, in its possibilities of noble 
and ennobling exaltation, a love that 

is pure friendship. 

— H. C Trumbull, 




|HERE are evergreen men and 
women in the world, praise be 
to God! — not many of them, but a 
few. They are not the showy folk; 
they are not the clever, attractive 
folk. (Nature is an old fashioned 
shopkeeper: she never puts her best 
goods in the window.) They are 
only the quiet, strong folk; they are 
stronger than the world, stronger 
than life or death, stronger than Fate. 
The storms of life sweep over them, 
and the rains beat down upon them, 
and the biting frosts creep round 
them; but the winds and the rains 
and the frosts pass away, and they 
are still standing, green and straight. 
They love the sunshine of life in their 
undemonstrative way — its pleasures, 
its joys. But calamity cannot bow 
them, sorrow and affliction bring not 
despair to their serene faces, only a 
little tightening of the lips; the sun of 
our prosperity makes the green of 
their friendship no brighter, the frost 
of our adversity kills not the leaves 
of their affection. 

— Jerome K.Jerome, 




[THERS will kiss you while your mouth Is red; 
Beauty is brief. Of all the guests who come 
When the lamps shine on flowers, and wine, and bread, 

In time of famine who will spare a crumb? 
Therefore, oh, next to God I pray you, keep 

Yourself as your own friend, the tried, the true, 
Sit your own watch — others will surely sleep, 
Weep your own tears, ask none to die with you, 

— Unknown, 



T^HERE is no folly equal to that of 
throwing away friendship in a 
world where friendship is so rare. 

— Edward Bulwer, 



pRiENDSHip Is but a slow-awaking 
dream, troubled at best. 

—N. P. Willis. 




|N austere love springs up be- 
tween men who have tugged at 
the same oar together, and are yoked 
by custom and use and the intimacies 
of toil. This is a good love, and, since 
it allows, and even encourages, strife, 
and the most brutal sincerity, does 
not die, but increases, and is proof 
against any absence and evil conduct. 
— Rudyard Kipling. 

A FRIENDSHIP will be young after 

the lapse of half a century ; a 

passion is old at the end of three 

— Madame Swetchine. 

TJiTHERTO doth love on fortune tend; 

For who not needs shall never lack a friend. 

— Shakspere. 

HO ceases to be a friend, never 

was a friend. tt i, 

— Unknown. 



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[RIENDSHIP Is apt to creep 
away into some corner of the 
temple on whose shrine love has 
descended. This mild affection Is 
but a twinkling- taper that will burn 
steadily on, perhaps unseen, amid the 
dazzling glory of love's supernatural 
lamp, to be found shining benlgnantly 
when the lamp Is shattered. 

— M, E, B 7^ addon, 

T^HERE is in friendship something- 

of all relations, and something 

above them all. It Is the golden 

thread that ties the hearts of all the 

world. 

— John Evelyn, 



P RIENDSHIP Is the highest degree of 
perfection in society. 



— Montaigne. 




|HIS matter of friendship Is often 
regarded slightingly as a mere 
accessory of life, a happy chance if 
one falls Into it, but not as entering 
into the substance of life. No mis- 
take can be greater. It is, as Emer- 
son says, not a thing of '* Glass 
threads or frost-work, but the solld- 

est thing we know." 

— T, T, M linger. 



Qmall service is true service while it lasts ; 

^ Of friends, however humble, scorn not one ; 

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts. 

Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. 

— Wordsworth, 




FTER a man has passed forty 

years of age he makes no more 

friends. He has passed the period 

when it is possible for him to open his 

heart and confide its best secrets to 

anybody who did not possess them 

before ; but there is no period, if he 

lives to be one hundred, when, if the 

sun still shines for him as it did at 

twenty, his heart cannot open to a 

man whose heart is also open to the 

rays of the god of day, that he cannot 

look out and find a man who can 

sympathize with his success, who can 

grieve with him in his sorrows, who 

can give him a helping hand — not in 

a pecuniary or gross sense — but a 

helping hand if he is blue or tired, and 

who can always be relied upon, either 

at the festive board or away from it, 

to say, " Old man, your hand. God 

help you ; I will." 

— Chauncey Depew. 




|HEIK SCHUBLI, taken sick was borne one day, 
Unto the hospital. A host the way 
Behind him thronged. " Who are you ?" Schubli cried. 
"We are your friends," the multitude replied. 
Sheik Schubli threw a stone at them ; they fled. 
"Come back, ye false pretenders ! " then he said ; 
"A friend is one who, ranked among his foes. 
By him he loves, and stoned, and beat with blows^ 
Will still remain as friendly as before, 
And to his friendship only add the more." 

— Alger, fro7n Jamee, 



TT may be a cold, clammy thing to 
say, but those that treat friendship 
the same as any other selfishness 
seem to get the most out of it. 

— E. W, Howe. 




HE books for young people say 
a great deal about the selection 
of friends; it is because they really 
have nothing to say about friends. 
They mean associates and confidants 
merely. Friendship takes place be- 
tween those who have an affinity for 
one another, and is a perfectly nat- 
ural and inevitable result. No pro- 
fessions nor advances will avail. 

— Thoreau. 



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RiENDSHip that flows from the 
heart cannot be frozen by adver- 
sity, as the water that fiows from 
the spring cannot congeal in winter. 
— J. Fenimore Cooper, 



E inherit our relatives and our 
features and may not escape 
them ; but we can select our clothing 
and our friends, and let us be careful 
that both fit us. 

— Unknown, 



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00 late we learn — a man must hold his friend 
Un judged, accepted, faultless to the end. 

— John Boyle O'Reilly, 



I N pure friendship there is a sensa- 
tion of felicity which only the 
well-bred can attain. 

— La Bruyere, 



HAVE always looked upon It as 

the worst condition of man's 

destiny that persons are so often torn 

asunder just as they become happy 

in each other's society. 

— Boswell. 



A GENEROUS friendship no cold medium knows, 

Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. 

—Pope. 



CRiENDSHip receives its crown in 
marriage when love is mingled 
with admiration and respect. 

— John McLandbtcrgh, 



]^RiEND is a word of Royal tone. 

n all alone. 
A Persian Poet. 



r 

Friend is a Poem all alone. 




MAN'S love is the measure of 
his fitness for good or bad com- 
pany here or elsewhere. Men are 
tattooed with their special beliefs, 
like so many South Sea Islanders ; 
but a real human heart with divine 
love in it, beats with the same glow 
under all patterns of all earth's 

thousand tribes. 

— O, W, Holmes. 

a TjE is my friend," I said, — 

" '' Be patient ! " Overhead 
The skies were drear and dim ; 
And lo ! the thought of him 
Smiled on my heart — and then 
The sun shone out again ! 

— -James Whitcomb Riley. 



RiENDSHip survives death better 

— J, Pettes Senn, 



F 

than absence. 




RIENDSHIP is good, a strong 
stick ; but when the hour 
comes to lean hard it gives. In the 
day of their bitterest need all souls 

are alone. 

— Olive Schreiner. 

'I Ay HEN two friends part, they should 
lock up each other's secrets 
and exchange the keys. The truly 
noble mind has no resentments. 

— Unknown, 

QOMETHiNG in ourselves warns us at 
once of any change of feeling in 
a friend. 

— Sarah Grand, 



XTEVER to have encountered a con- 
stancy equal to one's own is tragic. 
— Dorothea Liimmis, 




HO can afford to go through life 
without especial friends on 
whom he may bestow especial 
care and love ? When old age comes, 
that man is poor indeed — in heart — 
compared with what he might have 
been, if he has loved no life-long 
friend. Select your friends without 
regard to what they may perform for 
you. That is not friendship which 
forever seeks itself ; but that which 
gives itself for others. And having 
given once my love to any man, I 
never will recall it. Hearts that once 
were warmed and welded may not be 
safely severed. When the whirlwind 
of disaster comes and sweeps his 
worldly goods away, I still will be 
his friend. When the brand and 
blaze of scandal come and ruin repu- 
tation, I will remain his friend ; and 
if he meet disaster worse than these, 
his fair fame ruined, his good soul 
soiled by sin, I still will be — and all 
the more — his friend ! If in that 
moment of his moral overthrow I 
prove that I am not a friend indeed, 
what can I say if he do never rise 
again, when nothing less than love 
had power, perchance, to rescue him ? 

— Perry Marshall. 



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RIENDS— Old friends— 
One sees how It ends. 
A woman looks 
Or a man tells lies, 
And the pleasant brooks 
And the quiet skies 
Enchant no more 
As they did before ; 
And so it ends 
With friends. 

— W, E, Henley. 

/^NLY he who is unwilling to love 
^^^ without bein^ loved, is likely to 
feel that there is no such thing as 
friendship in the world. 

— //. C. Trttmbull. 



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HEN friendship goes with love it 
must play second fiddle. 

— Ger7na}i Proverb, 



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IFE hath no blessing like an 

earnest friend ; than treasured 

wealth more precious, than the power 

of monarchs, and the people's loud 

applause. 

— Euripides. 



A COMMON friendship — Who talks 
of a common friendship ? There 
is no such thing in the world. On 
earth no word is more sublime. 

— Henry Drummond. 



O 



NE can not be a friend without 

having one. 

— A, S, Hardy. 




HE man who will share his purse 
with you in the days of poverty 
and distress, and like the good Sa- 
maritan, be surety for your support 
to the landlord, you may admit to 
your confidence, incorporate into the 
very core of your heart, and call him 
friend; misfortunes cannot shake him 
from you; a prison will not conceal 

you from his sight. 

— y. Bartlett. 



Qay not that friendship is only ideal ; 

^ That truth and devotion are blessings unknown; 

For he who believes every heart is unreal. 

Has something unsound at the core of his own. 

— Eliza Cook. 




E can never replace a friend. 
When a man is fortunate 
enough to have several, he finds 
they are all different. No one has 
a double in friendship. 

— Schiller, 



/^NE faithful friend is enough; it is 

even much to meet with one, yet 

we cannot for the sake of others 

have too many friends. 

— La Br My ere. 



A FAITHFUL friend is the true image 

^ of the Deity. 

— Napoleon, 




OW many of us can say of our 
most intimate alter ego, leav- 
ing alone friends of the outer circle, 
that he is the man we should have 
chosen, as the net result after adding 
up all the points in human nature 
that we love, and principles we our- 
selves hold, and subtracting all that 
we hate ? The man is really some- 
body we got to know by mere 
physical juxtaposition long main- 
tained, and was taken into our confi- 
dence, and even heart, as a makeshift. 

— Thomas Hardy. 

-^HE vital air of friendship is com- 
posed of confidence. Friend- 
ship perishes in proportion as this air 

diminishes. 

— Joseph Roux. 



HY friend will come to thee unsought, 
With nothing can his love be bought. 
His soul thine own will know at sight, 
With him thy heart can speak outright. 
Greet him nobly, love him well, 
Show him where your best thoughts dwell, 
Trust him greatly and for aye ; 
A true friend comes but once your way. 

— Unknown. 



^HE supreme happiness of life is 
the conviction of being loved for 
yourself, or, more correctly, being 
loved in spite of yourself. 

— Victor Hugo, 



pRiENDSHiP is a word the very sight 

of which in print makes the heart 

warm. 



-Augustine Birr ell. 



WONDER if there is anything 
in this world as beautiful as 
good, strong friendship between two 
men ? They don't go round doing 
the molly coddle act ; they don't kiss 
each other every time they meet ; in 
fact, they never do kiss each other, 
unless one is lying cold in death; 
but they are sure one knows the 
other is always going to stand by 
him, and they feel that, no matter 
what happens, each can rely on the 
other. 

— Unknown, 



\T\J^ talk of choosing our friends, 
but friends are self elected. 

— Emerson, 



ANY kinds of fruit grow upon 
the tree of life, but none so 
sweet as friendship ; as with the 
orange tree its blossoms and fruit 
appear at the same time, full of re- 
freshment for sense and for soul. 

— Lucy Larcom. 



T^o contract ties of friendship with 
any one, is to contract friendship 
with his virtue; there ought not to 
be any other motive in friendship. 

— Conftccius, 



M 



ARK the difference between inti 
macy and friendship. 

— Erwin E. Wood, 



LWAYS leave my friend some- 
thing more to desire of me. 
Be useful to my friend, as far as 
he permits, and no further. 

Be much occupied with my own 
affairs, and little, very little, with 
those of my friend. 

Leave my friend always at liberty 
to think and act for himself, espec- 
ially in matters of little importance. 

— Gold Dust, 



'T'HERE are no rules for friendship. 
It must be left to itself. We can 
not force it any more than love. 

— Hazlitt, 




|HINK of the importance of 
friendship in the education of 
men. It will make a man honest; it 
will make him a hero; it will make 
him a saint. It is the state of the 
just dealing with the just, the mag- 
nanimous with the magnanimous, the 
sincere with the sincere, man with 

man. 

— Thoreau, 



pEOPLE who always receive you with 
great cordiality rarely care for you. 
Your true friends make you a partaker 
of their humors. 

— Manley H. Pike, 



A man's reputation is what his 
friends say about him. His char- 
acter is what his enemies say about 
him. — Unknown. 




EJOICE, and men will seek you; 

Grieve, and they turn and go, 

They want full measure of all your pleasure, 

But they do not need your woe. 
Be glad, and your friends are many ; 
Be sad, and you lose them all, — 
There are none to decline your nectar'd wine, 
But alone you must drink life's gall. 

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 



Tt Is easy to find a lover and to re- 
tain a friend: what is difficult is to 
find the friend and to retain the 

lover. 

— Levis, 



A T AUGH is not a bad beginning 

for a friendship, and is often the 

best ending for one. 

— Oscar Wilde, 




HERE are many moments in 
friendship, as in love, when 
silence is beyond words. The faults 
of our friend may be clear to us, but 
it is well to seem to shut our eyes to 
them. Friendship is usually treated 
by the majority of mankind as a tough 
and everlasting thing which will sur- 
vive all manner of bad treatment. 
But this is an exceedingly great and 
foolish error; it may die in an hour 
of a single unwise word; its condi- 
tions of existence are that it should 
be dealt with delicately and tenderly, 
being as it is a sensitive plant and not 
a roadside thistle. We must not ex- 
pect our friend to be above humanity. 

— Out da. 




|N the hour of distress and misery 
the eye of every mortal turns 
to friendship; in the hour of gladness 
and conviviality, what is our want ? 
it is friendship. When the heart 
overflows with gratitude, or with any 
other sweet and sacred sentiment, 
what is the word to which it would 
give utterance ? A friend. 

— W. S. Landor. 



I F your friend has got a heart, 

There is something fine in him ; 
Cast away his darker part, — 
Cling to what's divine in him. 

— Unknown. 




|HE tide of friendship does not 
rise high on the banks of perfec- 
tion. Amiable weaknesses and short- 
comings are the food of love. It is 
from the roughnesses and imperfect 
breaks in a man that you are able to 
lay hold of him. My friend Is not 
perfect — no more am I — and so we 
suit each other admirably. 

— Alexander Smith, 



T^RUE friendship cannot be among 

many. For since our faculties 

are of a finite energy, 'tis impossible 

our love can be very intense when 

divided among many. No, the rays 

must be contracted to make them 

burn, 

— Joh7i Norris, 




STEEM of great powers, or 
amiable qualities newly dis- 
covered, may embroider a day or 
week, but a friendship of twenty 
years is interwoven with the texture 
of life. A friend may be found and 
lost, but an old friend never can be 
found, and nature has provided that 
he cannot easily be lost. 

— Samuel Johnson. 

r>E able for thine enemy 

Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend 
Under thine own life's key. 

— Shakspere, 

npRUE love and fidelity are no more 
to be estranged by ill than false- 
hood and hollow-heartedness can be 
conciliated by good usage. 

— Charles Lamb, 



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N old friendship is like an old 
piece of china. It is precious 
only just so long as it is perfect. 
Once it is broken, no matter how 
cleverly you mend it, it is good for 
nothing but to put on a shelf in a 
corner where it won't be too closely 
looked at. 

— Amelia B. Edwards. 



TF we would build on a sure founda- 
tion in friendship, we must love 
our friends for tkezr sakes rather 
than for our own. 

— Charlotte Bronte, 



Q ATiRE is a greater enemy to friend- 



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ship than is anger. 



— Attwell. 




|RUE, it Is most painful not to 
meet the kindness and affection 
you feel you have deserved, and have 
a right to expect from others ; but it 
is a mistake to complain of it, for it is 
no use ; you cannot extort friendship 
with a cocked pistol. 

— Sidney Smith, 



IVTEVER refuse any advance of friend- 
ship, for if nine out of ten bring 
you nothing, one alone may repay 
you. Everything is of service to one 
who knows how to use his tools. 

— Madame de Tencin. 



OEASON is the torch of friendship, 
judgment its guide, tenderness 
its aliment. 

— De Bonald. 




|OT understood. How trifles often change us! 

The thoughtless sentence or the fancied slight 

Destroy long years of friendship and estrange us, 

And on our souls there falls a freezing blight, 

Not understood. 

— Thomas Bracken, 



•T^AKE envy out of a character and 

it leaves great possibilities for 

friendship. 

— Elizabeth B. Custer, 



IVjEVER yet 

Was noble man but made ignoble talk. 
He makes no friend who never made a foe. 

— Tennyson. 



b^dLD friends are the great bles- 
I^BJ sing of one's later years. Half 
a word conveys one's meaning. They 
have a memory of the same events, 
and have the same mode of thinking, 
I have young relations that may grow 
upon me, for my nature is affec- 
tionate, but can they grow old friends? 

— Horace Walpole. 



RiENDS are like melons; shall I tell you why? 
To find one good you must a hundred try. 

— Claude Mermet, 



T^HE only true and firm friendship 
is that between man and woman, 
because it is the only affection ex- 
empt from actual or possible rivalry. 

— A. Comte. 




lEOPLE who have warm friends 
are healthier and happier than 
those who have none. A single real 
friend is a treasure worth more than 
gold or precious stones. Money can 
buy many things, good and evil. All 
the wealth of the world could not 
buy you a friend or pay you for the 

loss of one. 

— Unknown. 



^HE ideal of friendship is to feel as 
one while remaining two. 

— Unknown, 

^o act the part of a true friend 
requires more conscientious 
feeling than to fill with credit and 
complacency any other station or 
capacity in social life. 

— Sarah Ellis. 




|F one have any oro sodo about 
one at all, either mental or 
moral, one never counts what shreds 
of the good metal one drops along 
the roads. If others pick it up, let 
them. To be of ever so little use is 
all one can hope for in this world. 

— Outda. 



A 



FRIEND that you have to buy won't 
be worth what you pay for him, 
no matter what that may be. 

— George D, Prentice, 



'^o practise a deception is almost to 
commit a crime. The flow of 
kindness thus driven back is with- 
drawn from others whom it might 

have benefited. 

— Carmen Sylva. 




IHOUGH the seasons of man full of losses 
Make empty the years full of youth, 
If but one thing be constant in crosses, 

Change lays not her hand upon truth; 
Hopes die, and their tombs are for token 

That the grief as the joy of them ends, 
Ere time that breaks all men has broken 

The faith between friends. 

— Swinburne , 




DEFINITIONS OF "A FRIEND." 

London Tit-Bits offered a prize for the best 
explanation of the meatiing of the words 
^*A Friend." The winning definition is given 
first, followed- by some of the best of the others 
submitted. 

|HE FIRST PERSON WHO COMES IN 
WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD HAS 
GONE OUT. 

A bank of credit on which we can 
draw supplies of confidence, coun- 
sel, sympathy, help and love. 

One who combines for you alike the 
pleasures and benefits of society 
and solitude. 

A jewel whose lustre the strong 
acids of poverty and misfortune 
cannot dim. 

One who multiplies joys, divides 
griefs, and whose honesty is in- 
violable. 

One 



One who loves the truth and you, 

and will tell the truth in spite of 

you. 
The Triple Alliance of the three great 

powers, Love, Sympathy, and Help. 
A watch which beats true for all 

time, and never " runs down." 
A permanent fortification when one's 

affairs are in a state of siege. 
One who to himself is true, and 

therefore must be so to you. 
A balancing pole to him who walks 

across the tightrope of life. 
The link in life's long chain that 

bears the greatest strain. 
A harbor of refuge from the stormy 

waves of adversity. 

One who considers my need before 

my deservings. 

The 



The jewel that shines brightest in 
the darkness. 

A stimulant to the nobler side of our 
nature. 

A volume of sympathy bound in 
cloth. 

A diamond in the ring of acquaint- 
ance. 

A star of hope in the cloud of adver- 
sity. 

One truer to me than I am to myself. 

Friendship, one soul in two bodies. 

An insurance against misanthropy. 

A link of gold in the chain of life. 

One who understands our silence. 

The essence of pure devotion. 

The sunshine of calamity. 

A second right hand. 




RONDEAU 

TO W. H. 

HAT makes a friend ? The heart that glows 
With changeless love in Arctic snows, 
Nor fails to cheer 'mid desert sand? 
This plainer speaks than clasp of hand : 
Hands may be firmly clasped by foes. 

How quickly liking often grows, 

Before the speech we understand ! 
By gleam of eye one often knows 

What makes a friend. 

A thing far frailer than a rose 

Turns sudden strong as iron band : 
The world again is newly planned ; 
Upon the soul there comes repose ; 
But, ah, no words can quite disclose 
What makes a friend ! 

— Volney Streamer. 




|F words came as ready as ideas, 

and ideas as feelings, I could 

say ten hundred kind things. You 

know not my supreme happiness at 

having one on earth whom I can call 

friend. 

— Charles Lamb. 



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